Reynolds Rap

BACKGROUND - “Elite,” politically powerful and affluent White men in the State of Nebraska have perpetually created, enforced, and sustained legislation, laws, and cultural standards to discriminate against Black people and other people of color. Black people in Nebraska have always existed in a perpetually "abusive and submissive relationship" unilaterally governed by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, and perpetually bereft of self-representation or access to appeal. Re-read the previous sentence.

The “Big Picture” point? - Nothing changes.

1. Throughout the 1830s, large-scale relocations of indigenous Native American tribes (Shawnee, Delaware, Kickapoo, Kaskaskia, Peoria, Ioway, Lakotah, Omaha, Ponca, Miami, etc.) born in and residents of Nebraska, notably Chief Standing Bear, and unilaterally categorized by “elite,” politically powerful and affluent White people as confiscated “Indian Territory” and immediately and forcefully removed to present-day Oklahoma, and elsewhere, a process ordered by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and known as the Trail of Tears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act#Effect_on_Native_American_tribes

2. The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 (10 Stat. 277) was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The division between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces caused by the Act gave rise to the anti-slavery Republican Party. The Act, and the tensions over slavery it inflamed, were key events leading to the American Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act

3. The only good Indian is a dead Indian.

In Nebraska, White people, and ONLY White people have the perpetual "privilege"
to routinely, openly kill minorities and consistently get away with it.

Keep in mind . . .

In 1859, the Daily Nebraskian newspaper reported its favoring of slavery, writing:

The bill introduced in [Omaha City] Council, for the abolition of slavery in this Territory, was called up yesterday, and its further consideration postponed for two weeks. A strong effort will be made among the Republicans to secure its passage; we think, however, it will fail. The farce certainly cannot be enacted if the Democrats do their duty.

5. In 1861 the territorial legislature passed a bill prohibiting slavery in Nebraska, but the governor vetoed it.

6. In 1865, although the Nebraska Territory prohibited slavery, and the first legislators limited suffrage (voting) only to "free white males," as was typical of many states. Following the Civil War, having this clause in the proposed 1866 Nebraska State Constitution delayed Nebraska's entrance to the Union for nearly a year, until the legislature changed it.

7. In 1868, instead of honoring its treaty obligations, the United States ceded Ponca land to the Sioux in 1868. Rather than renegotiate the Sioux treaty, the federal government removed the Ponca to the Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1877.

Atrocities by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people is immediate and without amends.

Recognition by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people always comes . . . a day late . . . a dollar short . . .

To watch the entire U.S. Senate hearing, click here.



Finally, after one-hundred-and-twenty-two-(122) years, on October 31, 1990, the United States Congress passed the Ponca Restoration Act, which granted the Ponca people to be federally recognized by "White people" as a tribe, and enable the Ponca Tribe to receive federal benefits including healthcare and education again. However, as required by the State of Nebraska, the Ponca Restoration Act did NOT return original tribal land back to the Ponca tribe, which literally established the Ponca as a tribe without land.

8. In 1891, Joe Coe, a Black man, is lynched by a mob for allegedly raping a white woman. No one was charged or convicted for his murder.

In Nebraska, White people, and ONLY White people have the perpetual "privilege"
to routinely, openly kill minorities and consistently get away with it.

9. In 1919, After being beaten, then lynched, then shot, Will Brown, a Black man, was then dragged all over downtown Omaha, and then, if he wasn't already dead, burned to death in the center of downtown Omaha, Nebraska on September 28, 1919 (below).

Clearly, in Nebraska,
it's not illegal to desecrate human remains,
especially when it involves niggers!

Keep in mind, it's always been "open season" to beat and kill Black people!

Obviously, many photos were taken of this . . . atrocity. Here's another photo of close-up images, but again, although 120 or more White people were indicted for involvement in the beating, stabbing, shooting, hanging, burning and murder of Will Brown, not one person was successfully prosecuted, and all White people were eventually released after serving no term of imprisonment. Notably, with current technology, high school year books can be used to identify likely murderers of Will Brown, but no, let's hold White people responsible for killing a nigger; let's not do that.

This "historical footnote" is just one well-documented example of the perpetual meaning of "Being Black," especially in Omaha, Nebraska.

Henry Fonda

May 16, 1905 to August 12, 1982

Henry Fonda watched the murder of Will Brown!

Let’s not forget that, prior to becoming a legendary actor, 14-year old Henry Fonda (father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda) watched as a Black man, Will Brown, was beaten, then lynched, then shot, and then burned to death in the center of downtown Omaha, Nebraska on September 28, 1919.

After supper, [my dad] put me in the car with him and we drove back downtown [to the printing office]. And it was very unusual for me — for my dad to be taking me at my age and turning lights on and unlocking doors and going up the stairs. It’s not like doing it in the daytime. I remember those physical things, and walking across this empty office to a window that overlooked the courthouse square. This was where the riot was happening. My father never talked about it. He never preached about it. We both just were observers. […] It was the most horrendous sight I’d ever seen. […] My hands were wet and there were tears in my eyes. All I could think of was that young black man dangling at the end of a rope. Henry Fonda

In Nebraska, White people, and ONLY White people have the perpetual "privilege"
to routinely, openly kill minorities and consistently get away with it.

10. In 1963 . . .

As represented by the photo (at right), my father, Rev. Dr. Everett S. Reynolds, lead the fight for equality throughout his lifetime, which included Lincoln and Omaha. The overall "status" of "Being Black" did not significantly improve during my father's lifestime. My father died in 2011.

Unfortunately, Rebecca, a 23-year-old White female advocating for civil rights also conveyed her belief that "change" will probably not occur during her lifetime; again, and she's 23! How many lifetimes must "people" wait to be treated as equals???

Rev. Everett Reynolds (right)
leading a NAACP membership
drive (Click photo to enlarge)

The Enlightener Newspaper
Wichita, Kansas
MAY 24-29, 1965

As represented by the newspaper articles at right, and below, my entire family has decades of first-hand experience with events designed to explore and prompt social change. Nevertheless, change is miniscule, or sadly, non-existent.

Rev. Dr. Everett Reynolds (above)
"A Primarily White Church
is a Beacon of Racial Harmony
with 5 Black Pastors Since 1997" (Click photo to enlarge)

Omaha World Herald Newspaper
Omaha, Nebraska
September 16, 2002

For a 2015 "preacher exchange" update, click here.

Abraham Lincoln
Reynolds, Sr.
1873 - 1965

My father was raised by his grandfather, Rev. Abraham Lincoln Reynolds, Sr., who said the following in his autobiography:

As I sit in my room this 14th day of July 1950, my mind goes racing back over 77 years of strange and varied experiences. My mother told me, when I was but a lad, that our family tree had its roots in the state of North Carolina. The Slave owners of my Mother and Father were John Reynolds, and William Fuell, respectively; their ancesters came over on the Mayflower. In 1620, John Reynolds, an ex-slave of John Reynolds, and Anne Mae Fuell, an ex-slave of William Fuell, were married. As a result of their marriage, there were two children, Harry Reynolds, my brother was born June 2, 1871 and I was born April 9, 1873.

Meanwhile . . .

Lawsuit seeking compensation for slavery is dismissed by Chicago judge
Jul 7, 2005, 12:13pm EDT Updated Jul 7, 2005, 12:13pm EDT
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2005/07/04/daily19.html?jst=b_ln_hl

A judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery from several companies, including some with significant Triad operations, according to Bloomberg. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Norgle wrote in his dismissal order that the plaintiffs in the case failed to show any injury done to them could be traced to the companies that had been sued.

My great-great grandfather, Abraham Lincoln Reynolds, Sr. hated White people, because although the Civil War ended in 1865, nevertheless, his brothers were sold into slavery; so he never got to know his brothers. So, even though the companies that bought (killed, castrated, raped, etc.) and sold slaves achieved their economic success as a direct result of slavery, the Chicago judge ruled "plaintiffs in the case failed to show any injury done to them could be traced to the companies that had been sued." Failed to show injury? Nothing changes.

History continues to repeat itself. In Omaha, in 1919, White people did more than injure Will Brown, they killed him - and took photos; and consistent with the mandate of White privilege, not one person was successfully prosecuted, and all White people were eventually released after serving no term of imprisonment. Again, fourteen-(14) year old Henry Fonda (father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda) watched as a Black man, Will Brown, was beaten, then lynched, then shot, and then burned to death in the center of downtown Omaha, Nebraska on September 28, 1919. As usual the plaintiff failed to show who or what injury happened to Will Brown. Nothing changes.

*FAMILY HISTORY:* After living in Lincoln, Nebraska from 1938 to 1940, my father and grandfather lived in Omaha from 1940 through 1948. At thirteen-(13) years of age, my father, Everett Reynolds was an excellent musician; he could instantly and proficiently read any sheet music by sight, and he played several instruments (bass violin, guitar, piano, sax, etc.). He was asked to join and tour with a big band in his early teens, and with his parents permission, he went on tour. During the "big band era," Everett toured all across the United States, he was the first Black musician to play with the Omaha symphony. He routinely played at Omaha's legendary "Dreamland," and played with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Billie Holiday.

Throughout his life my father actively "lead the fight for equality," which included leading civil rights marches while pastoring a Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1963. After returning to Omaha in 1987, and seeing the destruction of North Omaha, he then decided to become president of the Omaha chapter of the NAACP from 1995 to 2005.

11. The 1970 "wrongful" conviction of David Rice and Edward Poindexter for the murder of Omaha Police Officer Larry Minard and injury of Officer John Tess, when a suitcase bomb containing dynamite exploded in a North Omaha home on August 17, 1970. Poindexter and Rice had been members of the Black Panther Party, and targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), which operated against and infiltrated anti-war and civil rights groups, including Omaha's chapter of the Black Panther Party. Omaha's law enforcement and judiciary:

1. ignored evidence;

2. intentionally withheld exculpatory evidence;

3. coerced testimony;

4. ignored alibis - Poindexter went to a movie with a girl named Linda Walker, who was the daughter of a New York City police officer, and Rice was at a party from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. at Rae Ann Schmitz's house. She testified as a first year law student and eventually became a member of his legal defense team;

5. ignored 25 points of dissimilarity, and only 15 points of similarity, between a piece of sheet lead cut with Rice's pliers and a piece of wire found in a house next door to the blast site;

6. Neither Rice's nor Poindexter's fingerprints were found on the dynamite alleged to have been found in Rice's house;

7. On October 23, 1980, a copy of the 911 call, alledgedly made by Duane Peak, that lured police to the North Omaha home was discovered at the police station. The tape had never been played at trial. After the trial, in post-conviction proceedings Lt. James Perry testified that he destroyed the tape in 1978 because the trial was "over as far as he was concerned." An FBI memo dated 10/13/70, released after a Freedom of Information Act request, quotes Omaha Assistant Chief of Police Glenn Gates as advising that "any use of tapes of this call might be prejudicial to the police murder trial against two accomplices of PEAK and therefore... he wishes no use of this tape until after the murder trials of PEAK and the two accomplices has been completed." Expert analysis hired by the defense determined in 2006 that the voice on the tape was not the voice of Duane Peak. State and Federal appeals courts denied a new trial based on the voice analysis. The deposition of Duane Peak submitting to voice analysis can be heard in its entirety on YouTube, along with a one-minute comparison of the 911 caller with Peak's voice.

8. At a preliminary hearing on September 28, Peak took the stand and recanted his story, testifying instead that neither Poindexter nor Rice were involved. After a recess, Peak implicated Poindexter and Rice. Peak was at that time wearing dark glasses, which he removed at the request of Rice's attorney, David Herzog. Peak appeared to those present to have been beaten. Herzog asked Peak if he had been threatened during the recess, and if he had discussed his confession to help him remember it. Peak replied in the affirmative to both questions, telling the court that his lawyer was not present when he discussed his confession with county attorney O'Leary.

9. Poindexter and Rice were tried in Douglas County District Court by a jury consisting of eleven white jurors and one black juror. Deliberations lasted four days before both men were found guilty. The jurors had the opportunity to choose the death penalty or life in prison. They gave them life in prison. The black juror later stated that he voted with the majority on the condition that the death sentence was not imposed.

10. In 1993, the Nebraska Parole Board voted unanimously to commute both men's sentences to time served. The Pardons Board in Nebraska consisted of the governor, the attorney general and the secretary of state. They took no action to commute the sentences per the 1993 recommendation. One Board member even asserted that there were "no circumstances" under which he would consider commutation. In 2014, Ed Poindexter was denied parole. He would not be considered again for 10 years, at which time he would be 79 years of age. Rice died in prison on March 11, 2016, and Poindexter died in prison on December 7, 2023.

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12. Throughout Nebraska's entire history, the State of Nebraska and local governments within the state enacted and enforced “redlining” to intentionally segregate and prohibit Black people from access to employment, business opportunities, education, health care, recreation, real estate, public services - everything! Nebraska did not wait for “urban segregation” to be legally authorized by the U.S. federal government with the National Housing Act of 1934 or establishment of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The introduction of the interstate highway system through Omaha, Nebraska legally expanded "redlining" to intentionally destroy Omaha's Black community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5kAEbtZ7H8&t=68s).

The Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE presents
How redlining and interstate highways intentionally wrecked Black communities in Omaha, Nebraska

2006 to 2010. . . AND IT'S ALWAYS BUSINESS AS USUAL!

Between 2007 and 2022, as "branded" by the City of Omaha, there's absolutely no evidence to validate any targeted and sustained improvement in the socio-economic status of Black people in Nebraska.

12.1 - Omaha Public Schools remains a cesspool, the worst performing K-12 public school district in metro Omaha.

Between 2007 and 2022, neither Omaha Public Schools or the State of Nebraska "improved" educational performance and outcomes for Black male students.

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A current assessment of the public school districts for the six-(6) cities with populations immediately larger than Omaha and the public school districts of the six-(6) cities with populations immediately smaller than Omaha reveals the average graduation rate is 82.68 percent, and that OPS is below this average with a graduation rate of only 77% for 2019 (which actually dropped to 73.46% for 2020), with OPS ranked 10th among the 13 per school districts.

U.S.
POPULATION
RANK SCHOOL
DIST 2022
%
GRAD %
GRAD RANK

33
Fresno
85.10 6

34
Tucson
86.00 5

35
Sacramento
85.00 7

36
Mesa
82.00 9

37
Kansas City
74.90 11

38
Atlanta
84.20 8

39
Omaha
77.00 10

40
Colorado Springs
71.00 13

41
Raleigh
90.50 2

42
Virginia Beach
94.20 1

43
Long Beach
87.00 3

44
Miami
86.00 4

45
Oakland
72.00 12

AVG 82.68

QUESTION: Between 2007 to 2022, did the OPS graduation rate outperform the peer school districts above, or outperform local Westside Community Schools, Ralston Public Schools, Millard Public Schools, and Elkhorn Public Schools?

RESPONSE: No.

Keep in mind, as citizens of the City of Omaha the majority of these residents vote for the position of Mayor of Omaha, because their townships or villages were annexed by the City of Omaha. The "Big Picture" objective successfully achieved and sustained by politically powerful White people and their wealthy White peers remains: (1) keep the cesspool of "undesirables" from contaminating their White school districts; (2) prevent minorities from creating their own school districts (LB 1024); and (3) maintain sovereignty of their own White school districts.

LB 753 is currently proposed in concert with "separate but equal," to siphon taxpayer money from public schools to (encourage enrollment in) private schools, which are overwhelmingly owned and controlled by politically powerful and/or affluent White people. As usual a few people will object, but ultimately, it won't matter.

LB 21 is blatantly obvious. As Omaha becomes more diverse (especially with an increased population of Latinos and middle-east Asians), the intent is to create more districts, more political and economic "zones" and/or to maintain control by Omaha's affluent and politically elite White people (especially control over judiciary and law enforcement). Omaha's affluent and politically elite White people will NOT tolerate a city council where White people do not hold the majority of elected seats (votes).

For transcript, click here.

For example, as usual, the "boundaries" will ultimately be determined by Omaha's affluent and politically elite White people, so expect the "new" districts to come out of Elkhorn; far southwest Omaha; far northeast Omaha; etc. Conversely, North Omaha will be further diluted and split-up. This is basic gerrymandering, nothing more, nothing less. It's Omaha at its finest! The only alternative is for Black people and Latino people to band together and create a socio-political and legal barrier to prohibit this act of "planned racism," but as detailed here, that'll never happen.

12.2 - Black residents of Omaha have the highest rates of unemployment, from 12% to 30%, versus less than 5% for White citizens. In 2007, Omaha had the third-highest Black poverty rate in the United States.

12.3 - Black residents of Omaha have highest per capita poverty, especially Black children, as reported by the Omaha World-Herald in May 2007. In 2005, Omaha’s percentage of Black children in poverty* ranked No. 1 in the nation, with nearly 6 of 10 Black kids living below the poverty line.

Plus, As reported in the "2020 Nebraska Minority Population Report Card" by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, according to the U.S. Census, there were 92,902 non-Hispanic African Americans in Nebraska in 2018. This number represented approximately 4.8% of the total Nebraska population and saw an increase of 13.4% between 2010 and 2018. Compared to the White population, 30.3% of the African American population is under the age of 15, 75.4% were younger than 45 years, and 6.8% were 65 years and older.

The Empowerment Network reported there are only 27,173 Black people living in North Omaha. Numerically, 8,233 children or 30.3% of this population is under the age of 15. Additionally, the legal age of majority in Nebraska is 19, therefore, children between 15 and 18 must be included for an accurate data compilation and analysis.

12.4 - Black youth are the highest number of incarcerated juveniles, which reconciles with harsher punishments against "students of color" in Omaha Public Schools than their white peers, leading to a higher number of youth of color incarcerated. Black and Hispanic students represent more than 70 percent of those involved in school-related arrests or referrals to law enforcement. Currently, African Americans make up two-fifths and Hispanics one-fifth of confined juveniles.

12.5 - Black residents have the worst access to health care; Blacks comprise 4% of Nebraska's population but 35% of all HIV/AIDS cases! Blacks in Nebraska have the highest rate for HIV/AIDS at 59.3 per 100,000 vs. 5.3 per 100,000 for White males. Black females in Nebraska have the majority of HIV/AIDS cases at 54%. STD/HIV/AIDS and obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and other diseases at epidemic levels throughout Nebraska’s Black community, but Whites have closed public access to health care facilities in the minority community.

Sources:

>> 2007 Nebraska HIV/AIDS Epidemiological Profile by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

>> 2009-2013 Report

>> 2015 Report

>> 2020-NE-HIV-AMONG-BLACK-PEOPLE

>> 2021-NE-MINORITIES-HEALTH-DISPARITIES

Nevertheless, through 2020 and beyond, “elite,” politically powerful and affluent White people who control all aspects of public and private health in Nebraska closed or reduced minority access to health care facilities in Nebraska, and especially to health facilities located in North Omaha where most Black people live. The "status quo" of Black people having limited access to health care in Nebraska continues.

Don't be Black and sick in Nebraska . . .

12.6 - Black residents have the lowest rate of new business growth

12.7 - Black residents have the lowest rate of home ownership

12.8 - Black residents live in or near the largest amount of historically “redlined,” abandoned, and poorly performing real estate

12.9 - Black residents live in or near the most environmentally unsafe areas in Omaha containing a fully-functional coal plant and the largest lead superfund site in the U.S.

12.10 - Black residents live in or near the most dangerous, criminally "unsafe" areas in Omaha.

Given #1 through #10 above, and looking at the "big picture (below)," as originally conceived, defined, and established by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, the socio-economic status of Black people in Nebraska is unchanged.

IT'S STILL BUSINESS AS USUAL!

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13. On June 24, 1969, Vivian Strong, a 14-year-old Black girl, was killed in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, when a white police officer shot her in the back of the head without warning. After being suspended and then fired, the officer was charged with and pleaded not guilty to manslaughter. After the case, in which he personally testified, he was acquitted by an all-white jury and served two more years on the Omaha police force.

In Nebraska, White people, and ONLY White people have the perpetual "privilege"
to routinely, openly kill minorities and consistently get away with it.

14. As well-documented between 1880 to 2022, the single most effective tactic to keep Black people in their place . . . is the perpetual practice and focus of the State of Nebraska to incarcerate Black men, not to employ Black men.

As researched and published by Clare V. McKanna, Jr. in "Seeds of Destruction: Homicide, Race and Justice in Omaha, 1880 - 1920," The Black homicide rate didn't fall between 1880 to 1920; that's 39 years, that's Omaha's "brand," and nothing has changed.

As researched and published by the U.S. Department of Justice and the University of Nebraska-Omaha, "Criminal Justice Policy Focus, Number 91-1," between 1975 and 1989, 55% of homicide victims were Black, and the remaining 45% were White; that's 14 years, that's Omaha's "brand," and nothing has changed.

As reported by UNO, from 1975 to 1989 (fourteen years) 55% of homicide victims in Omaha were Black;
the other 45% were White. From 2007 to 2022 (fifteen years) 57% of homicide victims were Black (see graphic below).

Please note as detailed by the above exhibit, despite the fact North Omaha's Black population dropped from 45.3% in 2010 to 35.0% in 2020, and despite the fact White homicides slightly dropped during this same time period (although the average number of total homicides remained the same), nevertheless, the Black homicide rate (i.e., gun violence) has increase every year since 2016 - from 48% (2016) to 50% (2017) to 68% (2018) to 74% (2019) to 76% (2020)!

Do the math. In 2009 there was a total of 30 homicides, 17 or 57% were Black; in 2020 there was a total of 37 homicides, 28 or 76% were Black! Where's the progressive and sustained reduction in Black homicides?

Plus, between 2007 and 2022, the average number of White homicide victims was 16; conversely, the average number of Black homicide victims was 20. Keep in mind, Omaha's Black population has ranged from 9% to 11% of Omaha's population, against a White population of 85% to 90%.

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Year	Number of Homicides in Omaha	Number (%) of Black Homicides	Source: Violence Policy Center Report; FBI; Department of Justice
2007	34	5 (14.71%)	To download 2007 report, click here.
2008	44	0 (0.0%)	To download 2008 report, click here.
2009	30	17 (56.67%)	To download 2009 report, click here.
2010	34	26 (73.47%)	To download 2010 report, click here.
2011	43	30 (69.77%)	To download 2011 report, click here.
2012	41	31 (75.61%)	To download 2012 report, click here.
2013	42	25 (59.52%)	To download 2013 report, click here.
2014	32	26 (81.25%)	To download 2014 report, click here.
2015	50	27 (54.00%)	To download 2015 report, click here.
2016	29	14 (48.28%)	To download 2016 report, click here.
2017	30	15 (50.00%)	To download 2017 report, click here.
2018	22	15 (68.18%)	To download 2018 report, click here.
2019	23	17 (73.91%)	To download 2019 report, click here.
2020	37	28 (75.68%)	To download 2020 report, click here.
2021	32	TBD	Data not provided in response to FOI request.
2022	30	18 (60%)	Data not provided in response to FOI request.
2023	TBD	TBD	TBD

In 2010, one of every four drivers pulled over by Omaha police officers was Black. Omaha Police Department stops and arrests Black drivers at rates higher than their proportion of the population. Source: Martha Stoddard, Omaha World Herald, April 6, 2010. Plus, as documented in the report, "Anatomy of Traffic Stops," by former City of Omaha Public Safety Auditor Tristan Bonn, Omaha Police are decidedly adversarial toward Blacks.

In 2011, the national Black homicide victimization rate was 17.51 per 100,000. For that year, Nebraska ranked first as the state with the highest Black homicide victimization rate. Its rate of 34.43 per 100,000 was nearly double the national average for Black homicide victims.

2011 Ranking	State	Number of Homicides	Homicide Rate per 100,000
1	Nebraska	30	34.43
2	Missouri	235	33.38
3	Michigan	447	31.54
4	Pennsylvania	419	219.02
5	Oklahoma	74	25.51
6	Louisiana	375	25.30
7	Kansas	44	24.97
8	Wisconsin	86	23.22
9	West Virginia	15	22.79
10	North Dakota	2	21.99

2012 Ranking	State	Number of Homicides	Homicide Rate per 100,000
1	Missouri	247	34.98
2	Nebraska	31	34.93
3	Michigan	492	34.77
4	Pennsylvania	452	31.02
5	Louisiana	384	25.75
6	Indiana	157	25.48
7	Oklahoma	73	25.04
8	Wisconsin	91	24.38
9	California	585	23.25
10	Tennessee	246	22.40

2013 Ranking	State	Number of Homicides	Homicide Rate per 100,000
1	Indiana	213	34.15
2	Missouri	216	30.42
3	Michigan	428	30.34
4	Nebraska	25	27.65
5	Oklahoma	81	27.36
6	Pennsylvania	384	26.11
7	Wisconsin	93	24.74
8	Louisiana	350	23.33
9	California	549	21.79
10	New Jersey	268	20.49

An objective assessment of violent crime in Omaha reveals Police acts of violence are independent of criminal activity in Omaha.

Given the data analysis above:

Keep in mind . . .

When is comes to publicly killing innocent and unarmed Black men and women, Minneapolis greatly pales in comparison to Nebraska! The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin (photo at right) on May 25, 2020 is insignificant to Nebraska's very "public" beating, lynching, shooting, and dragging the dead body of Will Brown all over downtown Omaha on September 28, 1919 . . . or the murders of Joe Coe, or Vivian Strong, or Marvin Ammons, or George Bibins, or James Scurlock, etc.

In fact, without regard to the "public outrage" over George Floyd, as established and sustained by “elite,” politically powerful and affluent White men in the State of Nebraska, it has always been open season to beat and kill Black people, especially Black men.

As captured in the following videos, Black people in Nebraska have always existed in a perpetually "abusive and submissive relationship" governed by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people; and especially White men and their minions who dictate and enforce laws based on their skewed, bias, and overtly subjective assessment of "Justice."

Black people should NEVER expect justice in Nebraska!

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In Nebraska, White people, and ONLY White people have the perpetual "privilege"
to routinely, openly kill minorities and consistently get away with it.

Of course, not all White people are racist, but . . . Douglas County District Attorney Don Kleine, a White man who consistently supports pro-racism efforts and the incarceration of Black male juveniles and adults, refused to press charges against Jacob Gardner, a White man who shot and killed unarmed Black protester James Scurlock. In response, on September 15, a Special Prosecutor, Frederick Franklin, pressed charges against Gardner. Gardner was formally charged with four felonies, including manslaughter. On September 20, while in Oregon, Gardner committed suicide, reportedly near a medical clinic.

Of course, not all White people are racist, but . . . Omaha Police beat the crap out of unarmed Robert Wagner. As captured in a video on May 29, 2011 and broadcast on Channel 22 (CTI22) and all local commercial television stations, Robert Wagner, a Black man, was beaten, stomped, kicked, and repeatedly tasered by Omaha Police Officers in the parking lot at Creighton University Medical Center. The City of Omaha paid Wagner $32,000 in damages and an additional $68,000 for attorney fees, expenses and costs.

Of course, not all White people are racist, but . . . as usual, Omaha Police beat the crap out of unarmed Octavious Johnson; beaten by Omaha Police in 2013. The City of Omaha paid Johnson $30,000 in damages and an additional $60,000 for attorney fees, expenses and costs.

15. In June 2014, I asked to be discharged as a juror for a murder trial involving a Black man (see graphic below) being held in District Court of Nebraska at 1701 Farnam Street in Omaha, Nebraska. During the voir dire, I told the judge, prosecuting and defense attorneys, "I refuse to participate in a system that both encouraged and allowed hundreds of White people in 1919 to publicly beat, stab, shoot, hang, and burn a Black man, Will Brown, from the same building where YOU expected me to determine the fate of another Black person." Those "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people in Nebraska are so brazen in their blatant indifference, contempt, and condescending attitude toward Black people that my participation as a juror was both unnecessary and unwarranted. For example, after twenty-six-(26) children and adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, the residents of Newtown, Connecticut voted to demolish the murder site. But no, in Nebraska, it's perfectly okay for White people to publicly beat, stab, shoot, hang, burn and drag a Black man's dead body all over downtown Omaha in broad daylight - and then continue to use the same damn building to sentence and murder another Black man! Oh, yeah!

Although 120 or more White people were indicted for involvement in the beating, stabbing, shooting, hanging, burning and murder of Will Brown, not one person was successfully prosecuted, and all White people were eventually released after serving no term of imprisonment. What? I’m supposed to forget about an ongoing, perpetual system of injustice against Black people, like the recent beatings of Robert Wagner in 2011 and Octavious Johnson in 2013 by Omaha Police? I’m supposed to ignore the fact that, with few exceptions, White people continue to slot most Black people into the Eugenics-based cycle of poor education, no jobs, and high crime, which frequently requires many Black people to literally fight amongst themselves to survive. Albert Einstein said it so clearly, “Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

I was discharged after blatantly and repeatedly telling the judge and the prosecuting and defense attorneys,

"I refuse to participate and you can't make me!"

I SUBSEQUENTLY SUBMITTED A DOCUMENT TO THE JUDGE, PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, AND DEFENSE ATTORNEY; here's an excerpt:

"Thank you, your honor, for discharging me as a juror on Thursday, June 12, 2014. It was necessary for me to be intentionally abrupt during the voir dire, because the unnecessarily protracted nature of the “process” did not afford me my legal exemption from jury service as provided by Nebraska law. For clarity, please note the following:

As clearly documented by the U.S. Department of Justice, Nebraska EEOC, the 2013 Sentencing Project, the June 2014 issue of “The Atlantic” magazine, “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander," and dozens of other sources of empirical veracity, there is an overwhelming bias against Black people in every aspect of the judicial system. This inequity is particularly true in Nebraska, and especially Omaha.

As I spoke about the racial bias during the voir dire, I watched as most of the White people in the conference room lowered their heads to avoid making eye contact with me. The truth hurts? Why is it so common for White people (and some Black people) to bury their heads in the sand whenever the blatant realities of racism are thrust into open discussion? You’re naïve if you think a murder trial involving a Black man is not about race. As usual, White people will determine the ultimate fate of a Black man, and this does not bode well for any Black person, especially in Omaha, Nebraska or anywhere else in the United States."

FACT: The overwhelming majority of Black-on-Black crime is successfully engineered and sustained by "elite, politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men, especially in Nebraska, who legally:

1. Defined and restricted where Black people could live, which included the unilateral use of Eminent Domain to forcibly remove Black people from their homes and property;

2. Defined and restricted where Black people could work, and the "allowable and available" types of work for which they could be considered;

3. Defined and restricted where Black people could be educated, and the "allowaable and available" types of education for which they could be considered.

4. Defined and restricted access to and from all public and private property, including useage of such, through law enforcement, judicial, and legislative action.

5. Defined and restricted access to and eligibility to vote, and to seek election for public office.

6. Re-defined and reduced the character of scope of the traditional Black family by over seventy-seven-(77) percent by: (a) eliminating employment AND self-employment opportunities for Black men; (b) eliminating educational opportunities for Black men; (c) sustaining the highest levels of unemployment for Black men; (d) perpetually targeting Black boys and juveniles for "special education behavioral-based" pre-prison incarceration; and (e) perpetually targeting and increasing the incarceration of Black men - who in order to survive - engage in criminal activity (rats in a maze; animals in a jungle) as engineered and sustained by "elite, politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men. Avery Tyler is just another Black man too stupid to realize he allowed himself to be in a "situation" where White people joyfully welcomed an opportunity to treat him like a nigger!

16. Black people in Nebraska have always existed in a perpetually "abusive and submissive relationship" unilaterally governed by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, and perpetually bereft of self-representation, and with no access or extremely limited access to appeal.

In Nebraska, specifically Omaha, Black firearm homicide rate was 23 times higher than White males.

Black population in Omaha continues to decrease, and the composition of Black students and Black teachers in Omaha Public Schools continues to decrease, BUT the "pipeline" of Black juveniles populating Douglas County Juvenile detention continues to exist far greater than the percent of Black residents living in Douglas County!!!

NORTH OMAHA'S BLACK POPULATION
DROPPED FROM 45.3% TO 38%
80% OF DOUGLAS COUNTY RESIDENTS ARE WHITE, BUT
80% OF INCARCERATED YOUTH ARE MINORITIES

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QUESTION: Where do you dump the latest group of "undesirable" people who have little to no money, no or very few employable skills, who don't speak Spanish, who are not White and where there's a helluva lot of "redlined" (Omaha Land Bank) property that nobody wants? You dump them in North Omaha, of course!

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Omaha Public Schools exists as the "feeder group" to populate the ever increasing urban cesspool of youth incarcerated at the Douglas County Juvenile Detention Center:

As reported by Schott Foundation for Public Education and OPS, in 2012-13, ranked 49th of 50, OPS had the next to the lowest graduation rate for Black males in the United States.

As reported by Public School Review, for the 2023 school year, there are 111 public schools serving 51,914 students in Omaha Public Schools School District. This district's average testing ranking is 1/10, which is in the bottom 50% of public schools in Nebraska.

Public Schools in Omaha Public Schools School District have an average math proficiency score of only 30% (versus the Nebraska public school average of 52%), and reading proficiency score of 33% (versus the 52% statewide average).

Minority enrollment is 76% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is more than the Nebraska public school average of 35% (majority Hispanic).

BLACK STUDENT COMPOSITION AT OPS
CONTINUES TO FALL
BLACK TEACHERS AND WHITE TEACHERS
ARE CONSTANTLY LEAVING OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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“Elite,” politically powerful and affluent White people have consistently been in complete control of the formal education of Black students in Nebraska since 1867 (158 years), but the educational performance of Black students has never equaled the performance of White students.

Omaha Public Schools (OPS) is the largest public school district and with the worst student academic performance in Nebraska. Although over 90% of Douglas County residents are White, OPS has the most segregated student body with 22.7% White, 24.1% Black, 7% Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander, 39% Hispanic/Latino, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.

Over 50% of Black males fail to graduate from high school, while Nebraska’s White controlled public and private colleges and universities generate revenue through "slave labor" scholarship recruitment of Black male students to carry a football or shoot a basketball.

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The Omaha "city limits" include the following school districts: Omaha Public Schools, Westside Community Schools, Ralston Public Schools, Millard Public Schools, and Elkhorn Public Schools.

Consistent with “White flight,” the overwhelming majority of White students abandoned "people of color school district" to live in neighborhoods not contaminated by both lead and coal pollution, extremely high unemployment, poor housing to attend predominately “White public schools” (Westside, Ralston, Millard, and Elkhorn) also located within Omaha’s city limits.

Most importantly, as citizens of the City of Omaha the majority of these resident vote for the position of Mayor of Omaha, because their townships or villages were annexed by the City of Omaha. The "Big Picture" objective successfully achieved and sustained by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people remains: (1) keep the cesspool of "undesirables" attending Omaha Public Schools and living in "redlined" areas from contaminating their districts; (2) prevent minorities from creating their own school districts (LB 1024); and (3) maintain sovereignty of their own school districts.

"Elite," politically powerful and affluent White people have been extremely successful!

17. DO THE MATH. As reported by the Omaha World-Herald in May 2007, even considering the size of Omaha's Black population, the percentage of Black people who work in management positions was the eighth-lowest in the country, and while the number of Black managers has been on the rise nationally, Omaha's figures dropped 25 percent between 2000 and 2005.

QUESTION: As recently as 2019, has employment of Black people and other minorities into management level positions improved since 2000?

ANSWER: Absolutely not, as validated by the State of Nebraska's EEO-4 report below:

Nebraska's private sector EEO-1 reports
reveal the same perpetual mediocrity.

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The overwhelming majority of public sector and private sector employers in Nebraska abandoned use of “objective,” work-related selection assessment tools that validate a candidate's proficiency to actually perform the essential job functions in compliance with the established job standards, such as the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection (criterion-related, content, construct); and replaced it with the “subjective” use of consultant-driven, behavior-and-emotion-based assessments and unabridged non-minority rater-bias; and transferred “accountability” for recruitment and selection to third-party recruiters and online filtering tools that collect such as LinkedIn.com, Zipcruiter, Indeed.com, Robert Half, etc.

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In Nebraska, White people hold 92% to 97% of all public sector jobs that pay over $70,000

As validated by EEO-4 reports compiled in 2007, 2009, and again in 2011 by the EEOC, even though 97% of all state, county and local government jobs in Nebraska that pay over $70,000 a year are held by White people, on November 4, 2008, thanks to Ward Connerly (watch video interview below), White people in Nebraska passed ballot Initiative 424,which eliminated the application of Affirmative Action for all state, county, and local government jobs in Nebraska.

For the 2008 elections, Connerly headed a campaign which he called "Super Tuesday for Equal Rights." It was directed at dismantling affirmative action programs in five different states via ballot measures. In three of the states, Connerly's initiatives failed to make it onto the ballot. In Colorado, voters rejected Amendment 46 (or the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative) by a very slim margin.

HOWEVER, consistent with the state's extremely well-documented history of racism as validated throughout this editorial, voters in Nebraska were the only ones to approve a new anti-affirmative action measure, called Initiative 424. While similar measures were voted on in other states, voters in Nebraska were the ONLY ones to approve such a measure in 2008!

White people clearly want to hold the remaining 3% of all state, county and local government jobs in Nebraska that pay over $70,000.

Simply put:

1. Even White women have a better chance of breaking into the “Glass Ceiling” in the private sector than trying to get a job in "senior management" in Nebraska's State Government.

2. White people in "authority" in Nebraska, especially White men, have absolutely no problem hiring themselves at levels nearly 20% greater than their actual representation in state population demographics, but for some reason they are perpetually unable or unwilling to hire Black people, other minorities, and women at levels that mirror their actual population demographics. Is Pete Ricketts a racist, which includes the systematic lily-White cronyism that envelopes every aspect of his life? If it walks like a duck . . .

As established and sustained by Nebraska's "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men, who dictate all aspects of public and private education, "they" can and certainly do:
TARGET ENROLLMENT OF BLACK MEN TO COMPETE IN SPORTS AT LEVELS
GREATER THAN THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS IN S.T.E.M. AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

As reported by the University of Nebraska, the enrolled student population at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, both undergraduate and graduate, is:

72.8% White,
8.55% Hispanic or Latino,
3.77% Asian,
3.48% Two or More Races,
2.87% Black or African American,
0.25% American Indian or Alaska Native, and
0.0584% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders.

Students enrolled at University of Nebraska-Lincoln in full-time Undergraduate programs are most commonly:

White Female (38.4%)
White Male (37.7%)
Hispanic or Latino Female (4.79%)

Students enrolled in full-time Graduate programs are most commonly:

White Female (28.6%)
White Male (25.7%)
Hispanic or Latino Female (2.86%)

In Nebraska, over 50% of Black males fail to graduate from high school; therefore, a greater percentage of Black men are incarcerated and unemployed than in college.

In Nebraska, the primary reason for Nebraska's White controlled public and private colleges and universities to "recruit Black males (i.e.,niggers)" is NOT as students for S.T.E.M. (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) programs, but to perpetually populate the "slave labor" scholarship recruitment of Black male students to carry a football or shoot a basketball; otherwise, Black males are targeted for perpetual incarceration and unemployment.

As established and sustained by Nebraska's "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men, who dictate all aspects of public and private education, "they" can't or won't:
ENROLL AND GRADUATE BLACK MEN AT LEVELS COMPARABLE TO OTHER DEMOGRAPHICS

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As established and sustained by Nebraska's "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men, who dictate all aspects of public and private education, "they" can and certainly do:
TARGET ENROLLMENT OF BLACK MEN TO COMPETE IN SPORTS AT LEVELS
GREATER THAN THEIR DEMOGRAPHICS IN S.T.E.M. AND OTHER DISCIPLINES

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77% of Nebraska's population is White, which continues
to diminish, but 90% of state employees are White!

The math changes, but nothing else!

PERPETUAL TAXATION WITH INDIFFERENT REPRESENTATION

NE Legislature = 63%M (31), 37%F (18)

Governor Pillen’s Cabinet
27 White Men, 7 White Women, and 1 Black Man

(Former) Governor Rickets’ Cabinet*
27 White Men, 3 White Women, and 1 Black Woman

* No “minorities” on Council for International Relations
> No Vietnamese (9,000 in Nebraska after war)
> No Sudanese (NE has largest population outside of Sudan)
> No Latinos (Mexican Consulate located in Omaha)

City of Lincoln’s City Council
5 White Men, 1 Black Woman, and 1 Black Man

Lancaster County’s Board of Commissioners
3 White Men and 2 White Women

Lincoln Public Schools’ BOE
3 White Men, 3 White Women, and 1 Asian Man

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Again, employment of Black people and other people of color is NOT the objective; perpetual unemployment and increased incarceration are the objectives.

18. As reported in 2021 and 2024 by PrisonPolicy.org and the FBI in 2022, and Statistic.org in 2023, if every U.S. State were a country with incarceration rates compared worldwide, the State of Nebraska's perpetual practice and focus to increasingly incarcerate more Black men ranks Nebraska with the 32nd highest rate of incarceration (per 100,000) in the world. Nebraska with a population of only 2,005,465 incarcerates more people than China (2nd largest world population of 1,408,580,000), France (20th largest world population of 68,649,000), Germany (19th largest world population of 83,577,140) and Japan (11th largest world population of 123,360,000)!

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In 2023, attorney Timothy Ashford, a Black man, filed [CI 19 9165] to desegregate the “all White” Douglas County Murder Panel, due to its intentional refusal to appoint qualified Black attorneys to represent indigent defendants in murder cases in Douglas County.

19. As intentionally established and sustained by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people for over 150-years, this is Nebraska’s legal environment . . .

THIS JUST IN . . .

Gov. Jim Pillen announced Monday, November 10, 2025 the appointment of Justice Derek Vaughn to Nebraska's Supreme Court, marking the first time that a "token" person of color will serve on the state's highest court. It only took one-hundred-and-fifty-eight-(158) years to find a "suitable" Negro.

20. As reported in the Crete Newspaper on October 7, 2015, and as intentionally established and sustained by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people for over 150-years, this is Nebraska’s cultural environment . . .

Of course, not all White people are racist, and its ridiculous to suggest such.

Nevertheless, in 2015, as perpetually sustained by “elite,” politically powerful and affluent White men in Nebraska . . . century after century, decade after decade, year after year, . . . in Nebraska, Black people were yet again reminded it's always open season to discriminate, oppress, beat, lynch, and murder Black people.

21. "Elite," politically powerful and affluent White people "intentionally segregated and culturally categorized" the overwhelming majority of Black people living in Nebraska with the paradigm well-established by Omaha's legislative District 2. Again, Black people in Nebraska have always existed in a perpetually "abusive and submissive relationship" governed by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people to sustain and propel the absence of high school and higher eduation coupled with the incarceration of Black men.

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Since Omaha, Nebraska continues to incarcerate more Black male juveniles and Black male adults at rates higher than their proportion of the population, and since Nebraska (Omaha) is no longer listed as one of the Top 10 states for Black homicide victimization rate, why does OPD continue to target and incarcerate Black male juveniles and Black male adults at rates higher than their proportion of the population?

22. "Elite," politically powerful and affluent White people strategically and subtlely infused their "in-house," poor performing, and easily manipulated negroes, including Uncle Tom's, to sustain segregation and cultural categorization and to constrict Black people to an "abusive and submissive relationship" by maintaining the "status quo." Notably, with the exception of a very few and repeatedly used tokens, in both the public and private sector, career advancement for Black people is not possible in Nebraska.

NEBRASKA'S PERPETUAL CONTEMPT FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR

23. On August 8, 2018 former Nebraska Governor Ricketts unveiled his “Strategic Plan for International Engagement,” and the targeted countries and regions for “engagement” include: Japan, Mexico, Germany, China, Korea, Israel, Southeast Asia: Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South America: Argentina and Brazil. As usual, Governor Ricketts and his incestuous business cronies configured a team of White people, thirteen-(13) White men and four-(4) token White women to lead the Governor’s Council for International Relations, and as historically and consistently practiced by all previous Governors for the State of Nebraska, Governor Ricketts ignored these facts:

1. White people account for only 16% of the World's population, but Ricketts’ “international engagement” team is 100% White.

2. Asia constitutes more than half the World's population, and China’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is predicted to overtake the US by 2030, but Ricketts’ “international engagement” team was 100% White.

We're White and we're just right!

Did you know:

1. In the wake of the Vietnam War, Nebraska has one of the largest populations of Vietnamese;

2. Nebraska has one of the largest populations of Sudanese due to the war in Sudan; and

3. Due to the increase in both legal and illegal Mexican immigrants Omaha, Nebraska has a Mexican consulate?

Please note, as a subject matter expert in all human resource disciplines, I’ve always been totally against quotas, Affirmative Action, or hiring or promoting someone because of their race, or sex, or whatever. It’s been my demonstrated practice to hire, promote, discipline or reward based solely on validated work-related proficiencies – period. Oh, perhaps, to explain or justify Governor Ricketts’ lily-White Governor’s Council for International Relations you want to use that ole tag line frequently used by White folks, “We just can’t find any qualified minorities?” Really?

So, who made the decision to intentionally ignore all of the successful Vietnamese men and women who operate restaurants, food stores, and other businesses lined up and down 27th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska? Are these residents of Nebraska, all who have more first-hand knowledge about Vietnam – much more than all members of the Governor’s Council for International Relations simply not worthy of consideration and development?

Given that Dr. Maorong Jiang, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, and Director of the Asian World Center at Creighton University (or his designee) has much more subject matter expertise, and actual first-hand experience about all of Asia – more than all members of the Governor’s Council for International Relations, who made the decision to exclude Dr. Maorong Jiang as a member of or consultant to the Governor’s Council for International Relations?

Who made the decision to exclude Minister Sánchez-Salazar, Consul of Mexico in Omaha, Nebraska and a career member of the Mexican Foreign Service with wide experience in the consular, bilateral and multilateral diplomatic fields (or her designee) as a member of the Governor’s Council for International Relations?

Given that Omaha is home to more than 10,000 South Sudanese expatriates, and that Nebraska has the world’s largest population of Nuer (Sudanese) outside South Sudan, who made the decision to exclude members of the Southern Sudan Community Association or other Omaha-based Sudanese groups or individuals as a member of the Governor’s Council for International Relations?

Why should women and people of color spend time and money obtaining higher education degrees at the best universities only to be constantly rejected from consideration for the Governor’s Council for International Relations and similar "Glass Ceiling" opportunities?

So, why were no “people of color” appointed to the Governor’s task force?

Meanwhile, it's still business as usual for
brainwashed Negroes to be shuckin' and jivin'!

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As strategically established and enforced by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White people,
"elite," politically powerful and affluent Black people use overt narcissism to maintain the "status quo."

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24.Due to redistricting laws designed and enacted by “elite,” politically powerful and affluent White people to intentionally limit minorities with political access to the forty-nine-(49) member Nebraska state legislature, Senator Ernie Chambers, was the only Black member of the Nebraska Legislature for nearly forty-(40) years!

On April 25, 2005, Senator Chambers became Nebraska's longest-serving state senator, having served for more than 35 years.

Nobably, Senator Chambers initiated legislation and ultimately achieved district elections in urban areas with more than 50,000 residents, which would finally enable people of color and poor people access to elected positions. Not until 1981, did Fred Conley became the first Black person to be elected to the Omaha City Council. Conversely, the City of Omaha vowed to keep fighting against the district elections, and the mayor swore having open, citywide elections was the best way to go. The NAACP president in 1980, Buddy Hogan, believed Omaha was unique nationally for its commitment to Jim Crow through open elections. He was quoted saying, “In the case of the City of Omaha, it is extremely possible to show discriminatory intent of the at-large scheme to deprive Black citizens of their rights.”

Senator Chambers was deemed too "controversial" by White “powerbrokers,” so in 2000 “elite,” politically powerful and affluent White people in Nebraska passed a term limits law specifically targeted to remove Senator Chambers.

Controversial . . . for telling the truth? On March 20, 2015, during a Judiciary Committee Hearing on Allowing Guns in Bars (LB 635), as part of the vetting process, Senator Chambers said this ("Your enemy is not my enemy!):

My ISIS is the police. And you know what the county attorney said, Don Kleine: If the officer makes a mistake, if he's wrong but he had reason to think that he was right, then he's clear. I cannot get away with that and shoot you and say, well, I thought he was going to do something. They say, uh-uh, buddy, that doesn't work. Well, now we presume that these officers are trained. To show how little their training means and how they hide behind it, some guy out east was fired because he was dealing with a guy who had a mental problem and wound up...he was on duty, shot the guy 14 times, and he was fired. Now he's trying to get his job back. And you know what the lawyer is arguing? And he's justified in view of the not finding any fault in what these cops are doing. He said, yes, he shot the man 14 times, but it was within his training. So now, if the police are trained to shoot somebody in the back, then the cop who shoots in the back says, it was pursuant to my training, and he's home free. That's what's happening.

I would tell young people: If you tell somebody to go across the world to fight for ISIS, they can put you in jail if you just talk about it. If you want to fight injustice, don't...you don't have to go around the world to find the ISIS mentality. Your ISIS is in America and you're likely to die over there, one way or the other. So if you're going to die, die making your home safe.My home is not threatened by ISIS. Mine is threatened by the police. The police are licensed to kill us, children, old people. They showed a guy on a highway. The highway trooper, he had this elderly black woman down on the ground, just beating the stew out of her, and nothing was done to him. That's what I see. Now suppose somebody told me somebody from ISIS did that. Then everybody is up in arms: See what cowards they are? They beat women in broad daylight. But when a cop does it, it's all right. I don't feel that way. And if I were going to do something--but I'm not a man of violence--I wouldn't go to Syria, I wouldn't go to Iraq, I wouldn't go to Afghanistan, I wouldn't go to Yemen, I wouldn't go to Tunisia, I wouldn't go to Lebanon, I wouldn't go to Jordan. I would do it right here. Nobody from ISIS ever terrorized us as a people, as the police do daily. And they get away with it and they've been given the license now. And people don't like me to say this. Then you rein in your cops.

A few days later, as expected, White state senators used the White-owned and controlled local media to flood public opinion and demand an apology from Senator Chambers; as expected, the blatant and unabated beating and killing of unarmed Black people by police in Nebraska and throughout the U.S., as referenced by Senator Chambers was ignored, because the true power of White privilege is the ability to beat or kill Black people with absolutely no expectation of prosecution or conviction.

Controversial . . . for telling the truth? In 2007, Senator Chambers said this:

Chastising the "approved use" of the "N-Word" by
students and administration at Omaha Public Schools

NIGGER - | 'niger |
noun offensive

A word intentionally used by White people, especially Christians, Muslims, Jews and other hypocritical people of faith in their ongoing practice to enslave, rape, murder, castrate, oppress, discriminate, and engage in acts of genocide against Black people.

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TO READ THE
BENSON HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENT PAPER

For fallout, click here.

"NIGGER," A word historically and currently used by White people and brain-washed Black people (via Willie Lynch, Uncle Tom’s, etc.) to devalue, limit, categorize, and prevent Black people from equitable access to human rights and achievement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Sen. Chambers is not referring to "all" White people, or to any individual who acts in an egalitarian way toward all people. Consistent with the practices of broadcast media, a “sound bite” is not supposed to provide context, clarity, or fairness.

As Sen. Chambers consistently conveyed during his weekly 90-minute community access television show, he’s talking about 48 "elite," politically powerful and affluent White state senators and their political and financial constituents who own, run, and influence everything. Learn more at:

"Being White"
http://www.tripoetry.com/White.htm

Controversial . . . for telling the truth? In 1967, in the award-winning documentary film, "A Time for Burning," (pre-Senator) Ernie Chambers said this:

A Time for Burning
A White Pastor in Omaha, Nebraska tries to introduce integration into his church by arranging visits with a Black church of the same faith. The experiment is filmed as it happened. Discussions from all points of view take place, which included a young Ernie Chambers. In the end, as predicted by Ernie Chambers, the White pastor is forced to leave the church by a committee which did not like his attitude.		"A Time for Burning," Dir. Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey; 58 minutes; Not Rated 1967; Lutheran Film Associates

25. On a personal note, as intentionally established by "elite," politically power and affluent Nebraska's White bishops, clergy, and congregations of the Methodist Church, I vividly recall (first-hand) as early as the mid-1950s when my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather pastored segregated chuches in Nebraska. During the 1950s and 1960s in Lincoln, Nebraska, my father was "prohibited" from entering all White Methodist churches except from the back door or rear service entrance, and he was NEVER allowed into the church sanctuary!! Plus, consistent with Nebraska's urban and rural racial demographics, and most importantly, the well-established hypocrisy of organized religions, such "religious segregation" continues today with very few exceptions!

For more information, click the image above.

26. As perpetually "showcased" by White-owned and White-control broadcast media, Nebraska is overwhelmingly committed to maintaining the "status quo!"

Again, even in 2013, nothing ever changes.

Again, even in 2017, nothing ever changes.

Again, even in 2019, nothing ever changes.

Again, even in 2020, nothing ever changes.

Again, even in 2022, nothing ever changes.

'Nobody should have to hear what those girls heard:
Racial slur investigation

The
Racial Wealth Gap
1860 - 2020

As researched by Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Kuhn, and Schularick in their March 8, 2021 report, “The Racial Wealth Gap, 1860 - 2020,” the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has never been abated, has only increased significantly; and if present trends in the data continue, the racial wealth gap is headed to a steady state with average White wealth at least five times greater than average Black wealth - even through 2260! Click the image at right to read the full report.

Note: This data reconciles with "Seeds of Destruction: Homicide, Race and Justice in Omaha, 1880 - 1920."

27. On a personal note:

In April 2024, weekday, about 6:00 PM, I was legally walking my dog on a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood in a Nebraska city several hours west of Omaha, Nebraka. A young White boy about ten-(10) years-old was quickly walking to the front door of his home and abruptly yelled-out at me, "Get lost nigger!" Then, he quickly slammed his front door. I made no response. I took no action.


In July 2024, a weekday about 7PM, I was walking back from a grocery store to my temporary residence in a Nebraska city west of Omaha, Nebraka. A White male in his early 30s stopped me, began recording me with his cell phone and said, "I know you've been knocking on my door, scaring my kids, and I'm calling the police." I responded, "I don't know what you're talkng about. I live right here, feel free to call the police, I'll be right here." The angry White man replied, "You don't live there. I'm calling the police." I replied, "Again, call the police." I turned away, walked up the steps to the residence, put my key into the lock, and walked in, placed my groceries on the counter. I walked back outside and said to the man, "So, where are the police? Nevermind, I'll call them." He replied, "Okay, so you do live there. Hum, I guess I made a mistake." I replied, "So, with absolutely no evidence you blame me because I'm a Black man walking, really?" He replied, "Again, I'm sorry man, er . . . a . . I don't know what else to say." I made no additional response. I took no action.


In January 2025, 11:45 PM, Saturday, temperature -6 degrees (with wind chill), in a Nebraska city west of Omaha, Nebraka. I'm a career athlete in track, and I train no matter how hot, cold, windy, or rainy. I was minding my own business, running on a 400 meter public access track, when from a street adjacent to the track a White young man in his 20s leaned his head out through his car window and yelled, "Hey, nigger!" He quickly rolled-up his window and drove on. I made no response. I took no action.


In April 2025, 6 PM, Monday, in a Nebraska city west of Omaha, Nebraka. I was minding my own business, running on a public access 400 meter track. A high school boys football team of approximately twenty players was practicing on the infield. While running laps I could constantly here loud rap music being played on a portable speaker system. "NIGGER," was the dominate word being used at the beginning, middle, and end of every rap sentence. All of the coaches were White, and all of the students were White except for one-(1) Black teenage youth. I approached two-(2) gentlemen I believed to be coaches, and demanded they select music that was not racially offensive, or stop playing music; and if they refused to comply I would report my concerns to all local media, social media, school board, police, etc. They acknowledged my concern and apologized. Plus, they informed me as I was leaving the track they would take responsibility to monitor the selection of music made by students. I thanked them for their kind assistance, and took no additional action.

28. Nothing ever changes!

It's always open season to hunt Niggers and praise Uncle Tom's!

THE NIGGER

THE UNCLE TOM

SOURCE: WOWT.com

Prior to becoming Omaha's newly anointed Black mayor, Ewing served as Omaha deputy police chief for nearly twenty-five-(25) years, and then served as the treasurer of Douglas County, Nebraska for eighteen years, from 2007 until his election as mayor. Despite Omaha's perpetually well-documented racist treatment by police against people of color, and especially against Black men throughout Ewing's career in "public service," nevertheless, Ewing continues to support the status quo with flaccid rhetoric about "trust," and with yet another bogus "investigation" that ultimately changes nothing.

“I learned Omaha police pulled over Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford on a traffic stop downtown early this morning. After learning of this, I spoke personally to Bud Crawford. I acknowledge the seriousness of what occurred and how trust between law enforcement and our community is important and shows the need to be continuously vigilant about building relationships. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer has pledged an internal investigation, which I support and want to be full and thorough. We will gather all the facts and be transparent with the public about our findings. Understand that my heart dropped in learning of this end to an otherwise wonderful day and evening celebrating our city’s world boxing champion. We held a great parade and great event at Heartland of America park. The evening birthday party at Steelhouse, which I and members of my team attended, was a showing of joy and pride. Omaha needs to remember this important day as a good one while we seek answers to how it ended.”

John Ewing, Mayor of Omaha
(The Great White Hope)

How do police treat most Black people?

Once a nigger, always a nigger!

Police order world champion and hometown hero Terence Crawford out of car at gunpoint early on Sunday, hours after his hometown held a parade to celebrate his recent victory over Canelo Álvarez. Crawford was ticketed for allegedly reckless driving. Police chief says incident will be investigated. SOURCE: The Guardian

Again, nothing changes. In 2010, one of every four drivers pulled over by Omaha police officers was Black. Omaha Police Department stops and arrests Black drivers at rates higher than their proportion of the population. Source: Martha Stoddard, Omaha World Herald, April 6, 2010. Plus, as documented in the report, "Anatomy of Traffic Stops," by former City of Omaha Public Safety Auditor Tristan Bonn, Omaha Police are decidedly adversarial toward Blacks.

THE STATUS QUO

What exactly, if anything did Deputy Chief of Police John Ewing specifically do to reduce or eliminate abusive conduct of Omaha's police against people of color? Again, John Ewing was there; so why didn’t he clean-up Omaha’s Police Department?

1982 - Can John Ewing provide facts that he, the Chief of Police, and Mayor Daub did not ignore the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ninety-two-(92) page report, which was produced during Michael Boyle’s term as Mayor of Omaha, “Police-Community Relations in Omaha” from 1982 (below)?	1994 - Can John Ewing provide facts that he, the Chief of Police, and Mayor Daub did not ignore the “Community Policing and Special Operations Bureau” report, which was produced immediately before Hal Daub became mayor, during P.J. Morgan’s term as Mayor of Omaha from 1994 (below)?	2006 – If John Ewing possesses facts that he, the Chief of Police, and Mayor Daub reviewed and implemented the research and recommendations from his political predecessors, why after nearly twenty-five-(25) years did Tristan Bonn, Public Safety Auditor for the City of Omaha, report the same character and scope of negative, abusive community policing in “Anatomy of Traffic Stops” in October 2006 (below)?
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That's right, during Ewing's stint as an Omaha police officer from March 1982 to December 2006 (24 years, 10 months), homicides did NOT go down, especially Black homicides!

Despite the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ninety-two-(92) page report, “Police-Community Relations in Omaha” from 1982, which was produced during Michael Boyle’s term as Mayor of Omaha, a reduction in Black homicides did not occur. John Ewing was employed as an Omaha Police Officer.

Despite the creation of the “Community Policing and Special Operations Bureau” report, which was produced immediately before Hal Daub became mayor, during P.J. Morgan’s term as Mayor of Omaha from 1994, a reduction in Black homicides did not occur. John Ewing was employed as an Omaha Police Officer.

Despite the report of former City of Omaha Public Safety Auditor Tristan Bonn's “Anatomy of Traffic Stops” from October 2006, a reduction in Black homicides and/or allegations of abuse by Omaha police did not occur. John Ewing was employed as a Deputy Omaha Police Chief.

>> One of every four drivers pulled over by Omaha police officers in 2010 was Black. Omaha Police Department stops and arrests Black drivers at rates higher than their proportion of the population. Source: Martha Stoddard, Omaha World Herald, April 6, 2010. Plus, as documented in the report, "Anatomy of Traffic Stops," by former City of Omaha Public Safety Auditor Tristan Bonn, Omaha Police are decidedly adversarial toward Blacks.

Again, one might expect peaks and valleys in crime data, but the well-established "norm" for Omaha is the perpetual increase in Black homicide victims, from 43.13% between 1880 and 1920, to 55% between 1975 and 1989 - while John Ewing was employed as an Omaha Police Officer, to 57% between 2007 to 2022; that's 142 years, that's Omaha's "brand," where the overwhelming majority of homicide victims are Black, and nothing has changed. You got that?

Nevertheless, on February 19, 2009, as validated by the letter below, I personally met with former Omaha Chief of Police Buske and Deputy Chief Hayes to discuss the broadcast of a television program to "positively showcase" the Omaha Police Department. I also shared how, when driving in North Omaha enroute to and from the CTI22 broadcast studio located at 24th and Lake between 10:00PM and 5:00AM my older brother and I were frequently stopped by Omaha police for allegedly "reckless driving," a common targeting tactic used against Black people by Omaha Police in North Omaha. I informed Chief Buske my brother and I had endured this "tactic" as often as twice a month for several years, and as recently as the month prior to my meeting with Chief Buske. I perceived Chief Buske was only moderately interested in my statement, so I continued, "Look it up. If your officers didn't keep records, I'll be glad to tell you when, where, and who." Chief Buske changed the subject.

Chief Hayes NEVER responded to my letter or any subsequent follow-ups.

Despite bad publicity in the wake of Omaha Police beating the crap out of unarmed Robert Wagner (see video below), the Omaha Police Department refused to meet with me. As captured in the video, which was first broadcast (by me) on Channel 22 (CTI22) on May 29, 2011 and subsequently broadcast on all local Omaha commercial television stations, Robert Wagner, a Black man, was beaten, stomped, kicked, and repeatedly tasered by Omaha Police Officers in the parking lot at Creighton University Medical Center. The City of Omaha paid Wagner $32,000 in damages and an additional $68,000 for attorney fees, expenses and costs.

CTI22 informed its broadcast audience of its efforts to
secure feedback from the Omaha Police Department.

Plus, let's not forget, niggers are punished for any perceived error,
but Uncle Tom's are frequently forgiven and often rewarded (i.e., Mayor Ewing)!

State Audit Finds Millions In Dollars Of Mistaken Payments By Douglas County Treasurer		Omaha City Council Agenda 11.08.22
A state audit revealed the Douglas County Treasurer's Office for decades under the leadership of Douglas County Treasurer John Ewing, had wrongly calculated the amount of tax revenue due to several local taxing entities, overpaying the Omaha Public Schools by nearly $6 million last year but underpaying the Elkhorn School District by $4 million. Douglas County and the City of Omaha were also among those losing out on millions in tax revenue, according to the audit. For information about "The Big Payback," read the Omaha City Council Agenda 11.08.22 (at right), and click here.		Omaha City Council Agenda 11.08.22

This is Nebraska’s legal environment. This is Nebraska’s culture.

For the overwhelming majority of Black people in Nebraska, and especially Black men, unless you're a "token" Black person employed in an extremely rare senior leadership position or an essentially "invisible" Black person employed in a "rank and file" position of marginal value or complexity, your only "life choices" in Nebraska are:

1. incarceration;
2. unemployment or severe underemployment;
3. collegiate sports (but only if you're young enough); or
4. death.

"Elite," politically powerful and affluent White people, primarily White men, consistently interpret and enforce laws to serve their objectives; with regard to the socio-economic plight of people of color, and especially Black people, "truth and justice" are rarely relevant. For the overwhelming majority of Black people, it's an abusive and submissive relationship!

There's never been any serious scrutiny of abusive racial relationships in the midwest, because unlike the heavily populated east coast, west coast, and south, there are no major metropolitian media centers. So, don't blame this messenger for just telling the truth.

Nothing ever changes.

Again, nothing ever changes!

I welcome your feedback.

Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com

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